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The Flying L’s are 5-2 in the state playoffs, reaching the Class 4A state semifinals in 2013 and the regional finals last season. Last season’s regional-final loss snapped a 14-match win streak.

Of those five playoff wins over two years, four of them were by one goal, including two on penalty kicks and one in overtime.

Fort Lauderdale’s awakening as a soccer power started under coach Benito Clerveaux in 2012-2013 and has continued since last season under current leader Andre Reynolds.

“What we did last season was amazing,” said Reynolds, 30, who began coaching as a college student in Jamaica in 2006. “Winning 14 straight games is difficult.”

Fort Lauderdale led last season’s regional final against Delray Beach Atlantic 1-0 with 20 minutes to left when it fell apart, losing 4-1.

That loss, Reynolds said, drives the current team, which returns seven starters, including senior midfielder Fredlin Mompremier, who had 16 goals and 11 assists last season.

Reynolds said Mompremier, who plays for the Haitian youth national team, is getting scholarship interest from FIU and other colleges.

Still, the coach preaches team play over individual brilliance. Fort Lauderdale likes to play wide and score off crossing passes to the middle.

Reynolds experimented with different lineups in the preseason, losing 2-0 to Coconut Creek and tying Flanagan 1-1.

The coach said he is getting excellent support from his administration, including the school principal, Priscilla Ribeiro, a soccer-loving Brazilian.

Sponsors have helped the team get new equipment, although there is a problem finding enough practice time — the team shares the school’s one field with football, girls’ soccer and the band.

“The fan base has improved a lot,” Reynolds said. “People like to associate with winners. If we continue to win, it will only get better.

“I’m quietly confident that we will do well.”

COACHING CHANGES

There are interesting coaching changes at Pines Charter and Cypress Bay.

Alvin James, who was the coach at American Heritage-Delray the past nine years and led the team to three state titles, takes over at Pines Charter, a team that did not make the playoffs last season.

Yet James, who took over last week, is confident he can quickly turn around the fortunes of Pines Charter.

“I think we will make the final four [in Class 4A], if not win it all,” James said.

At Class 5A Cypress Bay, Colin Ilgner takes over for John Ramos, who was tremendously successful for the past decade.

Cypress Bay won three consecutive state titles from 2011 to 2013 before getting knocked off in the regional finals last season.

Ramos, who will remain as the director of coaching and player development at Plantation Football Club, said working both high school and club got to be too much.

But Ramos is confident Ilgner will carry on the tradition at Cypress Bay.

“He was the coach at Somerset, and I think he will be a nice fit,” Ramos said. “It may take a little bit of an adjustment, but there are a lot of families with soccer backgrounds in the Cypress Bay area.

MONARCH: Coach: Stephen Lorenc; Last season: 10-8-2; Top players: Jordano Chea (Sr., F); Rodrigo Silva (Sr., F); Aroldo de Andrade (Jr., D); Noteworthy: Chea, a former youth national team player in Peru, was averaging one goal and one assist last season before an ACL knee injury.

NORTH BROWARD PREP: Coach: Diego Cardona; Last season: Class 2A regional quarterfinals; Top players: NA; Noteworthy: Team has reached regional playoffs in 10 of 11 years under Cardona, including last season, which ended on a 2-1 double-overtime loss to Delray American Heritage.

PINES CHARTER: Coach: Alvin James; Last season: Did not make it out of districts; Top players: Jason Issaacs (Sr., MF); L.J. Lemmers (So., MF); Michael Martinez (Sr., G); Noteworthy: James comes over after nine years as the coach at Delray American Heritage, where he won three state titles.

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Coach: John Walsh; Last season: Class 5A regional semifinals; Top players: Giani Serio (Jr., MF); Carlos Aguerrezere (Jr., MF); Minas Myrtidis; Noteworthy: Four starters return from a team that lost 2-1 in the playoffs to Cypress Bay.

WEST BROWARD: Coach: Daniel Radice; Last season: Did not make it out of districts; Top players: Nicholas Velez (Sr., MF); Juan Valencia (Jr., MF); Bruno Cardozo (Jr., F); Noteworthy: Radice is a first-year coach but is doing double-duty as assistant at Johnson & Wales University.

WESTERN: Coach: Bill Hawley; Last season: 7-7-5; Top players: Ethan Elalouf (Jr., F); Marco Romano (Jr., G); Carlos Camey (Sr., D); Noteworthy: Elalouf had eight goals and six assists in less than half a season before being sidelined with a wrist injury.